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WHAT’S THE WHEATER




WEBSITES:


1. Weather and Climate 
http://www.reec.nsw.edu.au/k6/page/cc0.htm
Resource type: Learner Guide
Study level: Stage 3
Learning area: Human Society and its Environment, Science and Technology
Creator: Riverina Environmental Education Centre

2. Edheads: activate your mind
http://edheads.org/activities/weather/index.htm
Resource type: Learner Guide
Study level: Stage 3
Learning area: Science and Technology
Creator: Edheads (Site has teacher guide in using activity)

3. Understanding Climate Change
http://www.csiro.au/science/Changing-Climate.hatml
Resource type: Reference Material
Study level: Stage 3
Learning area: Human Society and its Environment, Science and Technology
Creator: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

4. What’s the Weather
http://www.copacabana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/tch_links/Science&Tech_Pages/Whats_The_Weather.html
Resource type: Teacher Guide
Study level: Early Stage 1, Stage 1, 2, 3
Learning area: Creative and Practical Arts, English, Human Society and its Environment, Mathematics, Science and Technology
Creator: Copacabana Public School, NSW

5. Australian Severe Weather
http://australiasevereweather.com/cyclones/index.html
Study Level: Stage 2, 3
Learning area: Science and Technology, Mathematics

6. Cyclone Tracy
Climate Education – Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/cyclone4.htm
Study Level: Stage 3
Learning area: Science and Technology

7. Learn about meteorology: climate education
http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/index.htm
Resource type: Learner Guide|teacher Guide
Study level: Stage 3
Learning area: Science and Technology, Human Society and its Environment

8. What is the Weather
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/whatisweather/aboutweather/flash_menu.shtml

9. BBC Weather
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/

10. Activities
Make your own weather station.
http://www.fi.edu/weather/todo/todo.html

Books
1.

Title:
Can it rain cats and dogs? : questions and answers about weather
Names:
by Melvin and Gilda Berger ; illustrated by Robert Sullivan
Published:
New York: Scholastic, 1999
Series:
Scholastic reference
Subjects:
Weather
Physical Description
48 p. : ill., map.
Type:
Text
SCIS:
988999
ISBN:
0-439-08578-X
Copies:
1 of 1 at General: Non-Fiction 551.6 BER

2.

Title:
Weather: the Macmillan visual guide
Names:
Bruce Buckley, Edward J. Hopkins, Richard Whitaker
Published:
Sydney: Macmillan, 2004
Subjects:
Weather
Physical Description
303 p. : col. Ill.
Type:
Text
SCIS:
1176625
ISBN:
1-4-0503591-5
Copies:
1 of 1 at General: Non-Fiction 551.6 BUC